“The idea is to take one of his last stories and put him as a character in the story. A lot of his stories were about reality getting bent around, so we’re trying to do that.”

I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'getting bent around' but I think I get what you're saying.

Besides doing a minimum of research (literally, the article links to wikipedia's synopsis of The Owl in Daylight), the writers (they refer to themselves as 'we' and the scary thing is I think they're implying that MTV.com is a 'royal we') manage to make a statement by asking a question:

"We’ve long been a fan of the author, but what’s with the sudden fascination into his life?"

Giamatti responds:

“Well he was mentally ill in a lot of ways and he had lots of problems; he was married many times, was paranoid about a lot of things,” Giamatti explained. “Strange guy. He had a very interesting, complicated life.”

I think these last comments say the most about the approach they're taking with this project. What do you think?

Philip K Dick was paranoid "in lots of ways". But then, he had good reason to be. As many of his friends from the 1960s say,

Philip talked about a lot of weird conspiratorial stuff, but by the late 1970s his friends knew that much of it was true, and Philip had been right all along. The government was keeping files on plenty of people and agents had infiltrated the peace movement and were posing as drug freaks.

As they say, "just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not after you."

Just treat Philip with the respect and intelligence he deserves and most fans will be happy.

So as of Feb. 21 has anyone got anytidbits on this project?I originally thought of Philip J. Hoffman as good for the role of PKDbut Giamatti is the best pick yet. I just found out about this thingas I am not much surfing these days, and I am fascinated.I read 'the dark haired girl' last year very slowly and got some wildimages of Phil with the trenchcoaton holding a bible at the airport.I always regretted not really reading his material until the lateeighties. I had owned 'Clans of the Alphane moon' in 1979 but 'things get in the way'..andthe next thing you know it's ten years later and THEN you start to read the stuff that really grabs you, the stuff that grabbed John Lennon etc. I lived near Anaheim in Ca. aroundthe time of his death, I was raisedaround there and was relocated to Az. in 1973 and was back in Ca. during '80-'82 doing the aimless artist thing riding my motorcycle around L.A. -1982 was the summerin L.A. that was late and chillybecause of that Mexican volcano(or was it Mt. St.Helens?) whichclouded the atmosphere for months..instead of endless summer it was endless bummer.

But I digress...He would have beenan astounding person to meet. Having a strong familiarity with his surroundings at the time beforehe passed and a current visual in my head of him the person from reading much about him and his works the past few years has recently given me some ideas fortheatre / film enactments of himas he was.Oh well...

I like the premise of mixing his bio with fiction, as this is how reality existed for PKD (for him the pink light he saw was just as real for him as anything else). But then again, I agree with the posters concerns about Giamatti's final comments. Sure, some of what PKD wrote 'bent reality' a little bit. But other things he wrote were to get people to question reality in the first place. In other words, are we the ones that need to be bent around reality?

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